Keith Thomas
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work. (April 2007)
From the Review
April 12, 2007: A Highly Paradoxical Historian
Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson edited by Richard Davenport-Hines
Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne by Hugh Trevor-Roper
April 27, 2006: Speak of the Devil
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill
Remember Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day by James Sharpe
October 20, 2005: Antipodean Historians (letter)
May 26, 2005: Politics: Looking for Liberty
Visions of Politics by Quentin Skinner
Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage edited by Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric by Kari Palonen
May 27, 2004: When the Lid Came off England
Britain in Revolution, 1625–1660 by Austin Woolrych
March 13, 2003: Heroes of History
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation by Anthony Grafton
November 7, 2002: A Vanished World
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy
October 4, 2001: 'A Modern Socrates'
Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century by Peter N. Miller
December 21, 2000: Wrapping It Up
The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France by Natalie Zemon Davis
December 17, 1998: God in the Computer
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention by David F. Noble
September 21, 1995: The Big Cake
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
September 22, 1994: As You Like It
Queering the Renaissance edited by Jonathan Goldberg
Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities by Jonathan Goldberg
November 4, 1993: The View from the Keyhole
Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660–1753 by Lawrence Stone
Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660–1857 by Lawrence Stone
May 13, 1993: 'The London Hanged' (letter)
November 19, 1992: How Britain Made It
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 by Linda Colley
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh
March 7, 1991: Divorce à la Mode
Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 by Lawrence Stone
June 14, 1990: The Brilliant Misfit
Lewis Namier by Linda Colley
November 9, 1989: Behind Closed Doors
A History of Private Life Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance edited by Roger Chartier, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
November 24, 1988: Just Say Yes
Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by Edmund S. Morgan
May 28, 1987: A Neo-Victorian Romance
Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb
February 27, 1986: Politics as Language
Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century by J.G.A. Pocock
November 22, 1984: The Long March
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century. Volume 3: The Perspective of the World by Fernand Braudel, translated by Siân Reynolds
July 19, 1984: 'Moveable Feasts' (letter)
May 10, 1984: Excelsior!
The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
September 29, 1983: Self-Realization (letter)
May 12, 1983: Back to Utopia
Gender by Ivan Illich
June 25, 1981: A Working Girl
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner
Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality by Frances Gies
April 30, 1981: The Beast in Man
Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress Pennsylvania 18411 by Henry S. Salt, revised edition with a preface by Peter Singer
Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind by James Turner
December 4, 1980: Rescuing Homosexual History
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell
May 17, 1979: Politics Recaptured
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought Volume One: The Renaissance Volume Two: The Age of Reformation by Quentin Skinner
October 12, 1978: The Wizard of Oc
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Barbara Bray
Life in Renaissance France by Lucien Febvre, edited and translated by Marian Rothstein
The Community of the Village: A Study in the History of the Family and Village Life in Fourteenth-Century England by Edward Britton
March 9, 1978: The Rise of the Fork
The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners by Norbert Elias, translated by Edmund Jephcott
Human Figurations: Essays for Norbert Elias edited by Peter R. Gleichmann, edited by Johan Goudsblom, edited by Hermann Korte
January 26, 1978: Conspicuous Grandeur
The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage and Royalty 1400-1800 edited by A.G. Dickens
November 11, 1976: The Virgin in History
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner
The Virgin by Geoffrey Ashe
September 30, 1976: Epidemic Man
Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill
April 17, 1975: Jumbo History
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism by Perry Anderson
Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson
The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century by Immanuel Wallerstein
August 8, 1974: Satan in Salem
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul Boyer, by Stephen Nissenbaum
December 13, 1973: Historian of Everything
Capitalism and Material Life 1400-1800 by Fernand Braudel, translated by Miriam Kochan
November 30, 1972: The Ranters
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
Books by Keith Thomas
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England (1997)
History and Literature (1988)
Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility (1983)
Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 (1983)
The Perception of the Past in Early Modern England (1983)
Rule and Misrule in the Schools of Early Modern England (1976)
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England (1971)